Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?

Re:Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026? by sosodev on Thursday December 18, 2025 @05:52PM (#46319949)

You do know this reads the same as every pessimistic commentary on technology ever, right? So many people were convinced that television was going to fry our brains.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026? by eucryphia on Thursday December 18, 2025 @07:47PM (#46320939)

I regret watching too much television as a kid. Fortunately my mother wouldn’t allow us to play indoors on the weekends unless it was raining.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026? by serf on Thursday December 18, 2025 @07:42PM (#46320905)

... do you know it didn't?

I'm not sure myself.

I do know that television feels about as deep as a puddle for me. Literature a bit less so. I suspect there is something to this.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026? by g8oz on Thursday December 18, 2025 @09:06PM (#46321511)

I assure you that it did fry many brains.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026? by jf22 on Friday December 19, 2025 @09:31AM (#46326258)

But what was the impact?

Society has made tremendous progress since the invention of TV.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026? by braebo on Friday December 19, 2025 @10:16AM (#46326751)

Trends around IQ and mental health suggest this age is quite the outlier historically.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026? by jf22 on Friday December 19, 2025 @11:21AM (#46327480)

Outlier compared to what?

I'm not denying new forms of media have negative impacts but the world kept spinning and progressing.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026? by nearlyepic on Friday December 19, 2025 @01:16AM (#46322769)

...you're saying that 24/7 news channels didn't do that?

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